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Josh mentioned the other day an interview with Margaret Shulock, a writer of Apartment 3-G, in which she laments that Margo cannot curse in print. Well, I thought about how this could be possible while still protecting the children.

Here is my answer: Universal Comic Cursicons. Ms. Shulock, or any other comic author, can enter their character's curse words here and receive a comic speech code that we "adults" can then translate.

Update: ! stands for I within a word, but can be used for ING at the end of a word.

I don't know if any comic strip writers ever visit here (if any do, I'd like to thank them profusely for allowing me to blaspheme their images), but here's their chance to spice up the usually bland language in the comics, safe from the prying eyes of editors and the less mature.

Curse in the Comments: To use the cursicons in the comments, just precede (lowercase) letters with exclamation points, for example, !d!a!m!n. (If you have a blog that uses blogengine.net, email me if you'd like the extension.)

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It's funny you should use Beetle Bailey as the example here. Many years ago, when I was doing the spelling bee circuit, Mort Walker was a guest speaker at the state competition, and between sketches of characters and reminiscing about his career, he joked about that mysterious, secret language everyone at Camp Swampy speaks when they're angry.

This a awesome idea, and it would be abso--lutely brilliant if the comics would actually use a universal swearing code like this. The poor kids would be protected from the unbridled horror of seeing awful, horrible words like "" and "", but the dialogue could be a lot more realistic because they'd actually have to think about what words were being used instead of just throwing random unspecified swearwords around when they want to convey swearing.

And before long, anyone who cared to learn it could do so (and of course, common words like "" would be easy to recognise after a short time). It would be great. :-D

bartcow

July 11. 2009 10:38

What's a fucking cunti?

Dean

July 11. 2009 12:11

bartow, it's the sweet land of liberty!

MadameUgly

July 11. 2009 14:55

If someone were to become fluent in Cursicon, would they be bilingual?

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